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Windows 2008 R2 Hard Drive Configuration
I just recently purchased a new server and setup the drives for a Raid 5. The total drive space is 3.5 TB. When I get to the part of the Windows 2008 R2 installation where Ineed to partition the drive it only allows me to choose 2TB of the drive for the primary partition. The other part of the drive is unalocated space. What am I doing wrong? Also, if I proceed with the installation I cannot format the remaining 1.5 TB of space to a usable partition.
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The raid array that contains the Boot Partition should not exceed 2TB.
You have a few options
1. Splice the array (not supported by Dell) by creating the initial Raid 5 Virtual Disk size below 2TB and then create a second Virtual Disk Raid 5 using the remainder of the available space
2. Change your configuraton to Raid 1 for your OS with 2 Drives and Raid 5 with the raining drives
You have a few options
1. Splice the array (not supported by Dell) by creating the initial Raid 5 Virtual Disk size below 2TB and then create a second Virtual Disk Raid 5 using the remainder of the available space
2. Change your configuraton to Raid 1 for your OS with 2 Drives and Raid 5 with the raining drives
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A Raid 1 for the OS , will that give me better performance with 2008?
Or you can create a mirrior over the system drive then a RAID 5 on the remanining 4 drives.
Actually better performance is given by RAID0 and higher reliability by RAID1. If you pursuit high performance then RAID0 is your choice for OS partition.
And thee others for RAID5.
And thee others for RAID5.
Personally I would purchase additional HDD of 300GB for OS and leave 3.5TB configured for data.
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